From: Chris Eidhof <info@...>
Date: 2005-06-16T06:52:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex help

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:44:50AM +0900, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> Hello list!
>     Could someone help me do a little regex conversion? I've got a  
> few perl compatible regexes from a php script I am trying to port to  
> ruby but I need a little help. Here are the php functions:

>  $buffer = preg_replace("#(?<!\"|http:\/\/)www\.(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)* 
> [a-zA-Z]{2,4}(?:/[^ \n\r\"\'<]+)?#", "http://$0", $buffer);
>  $buffer = preg_replace("#(?<!\"|href=|href\s=\s|href=\s|href\s=) 
> (?:http:\/\/|https:\/\/|ftp:\/\/)(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,4} 
> (?::[0-9]+)?(?:/[^ \n\r\"\'<]+)?#", "<a href=\"$0\" target=\"_blank\"> 
> $0</a>", $buffer);
> $buffer = preg_replace("#(?<=[\n ])([a-z0-9\-_.]+?)@([^,< \n\r]+)#i",  
> "<a href=\"mailto:$0\">$0</a>", $buffer);
I'm willing to help, but could you give a little more detail on what
the regexen should do?
-- 
Best regards,
Chris Eidhof